"do a crap"

[Jonathan Lighter]

> I'm forced to make an agonizing reappraisal.

Looks like it. It sounds pretty normal to me, at least as "approximately
where": "Whereabouts is that?"


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > "have"
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> Whereabouts do Americans say that? Just kidding.
>
> I'm familiar with "whereabouts" in place of simple "where" from down home
> in Marshall, where it's usual in the local BE, but not from anywhere else.
> However, after finding this,
>
> whereabouts - Oxford Dictionaries
> www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/.../whereabouts
> OxfordDictionaries.com
> Definition of whereabouts in American English in Oxford dictionary. Meaning
> ... adverb. Where or approximately where: _whereabouts do you come from?_
>
> I'm forced to make an agonizing reappraisal, since, clearly, this use of
> "whereabouts" isn't peculiar to the peops down home, despite my previous
> impression.
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